the iraqi desert looks like the surface of mars. there's not much of the. on the desert for that time of year, the knights and shovels they can to dig in to shoulder, it's like digging -- they can get in the ground. it was very hard to dig. it wasn't salty sand like you would see a lesser heavy equipment to dig down for the. the hardpan was a bad. there are many aspects of this that they were unprepared for when it went into that first night. the quarter we went down was actually pre-prep with rescue helicopters. so if you just called one of them, they notified react properly, 45 minutes in, 45 minutes out, they could have gotten off the ground. he was commuting. so that wouldn't have been a problem. but, unfortunately, they did like how he got shot down. how he got shot down started all this. the friendly fire issue. and the mistakes that were made. and the way, the mistakes and the flying of it to become a comes down to the fact that, while his commanding officer did not shoot them down, to clarify that point, he's not the one who did it, but because he b